The good Lord made man, then he rested for a little while   Said look what I've done, ain't he pretty, then he cracked a smile   I'll watch him grow, I'll hear him talk, learn to love and fight   But when he's had his fill of these I'll walk him through the night      To someplace green (someplace green)   Someplace nice (someplace nice)   Someplace that I (ooh-ooh) call paradise   Growin' greener in the rain   Waitin' there for man to claim      The good Lord looked down on the earth one afternoon and frowned   Said man ain't learned an awful lot since I carved him out of ground   He's built a lot of steeples of clay and rocks and sand   But he hasn't learned to get along with his fellow man      And someplace green (someplace green)   Someplace nice (someplace nice)   Someplace that I (ooh-ooh) call paradise   Is growin' greener in the rain   Waitin' there for man to claim      The good Lord's been around a while, he'll turn a tee at least   And I guess he'll be around a while, when time and tide have ceased   Lookin' down from somewhere, tryin' hard to find   If man has earned his paradise the other side of time      And someplace green (someplace green)   Someplace nice (someplace nice)   Someplace that he calls paradise   Is growin' greener in the rain   Waitin' there for man to claim   Yes growin' green, green, green in the rai-ai-ain   Waitin' there for man to claim